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Opinion: What Does Government Do?

Feb 19, 2011 - 5:00 AM |AOL News

Pop quiz. What's the biggest single job the federal government undertakes? National defense? Nope. Homeland security? Wrong. Transportation? Not even close. Law enforcement? No way. Education?...

Opinion: The Sleeves of a Vest

Feb 19, 2011 - 4:59 AM |AOL News

This is but a snapshot. A frozen moment in time, guaranteed to transmogrify on an hourly basis. So, knowing the situation is fluid, here's your budget update, and, if I were you, I'd find a nice...

Opinion: After 41 Years, It's Time for Moammar Gadhafi to Go

Feb 18, 2011 - 3:08 PM |AOL News

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To most Americans, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is a clownish character who wears outlandish clothes, likes female bodyguards and sleeps in a tent. In 2009, on his one and only trip to the United States,...

Opinion: Are Teachers an Endangered Species?

Feb 18, 2011 - 10:50 AM |Special to AOL News

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In New York City, home of the nation's largest school district, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would eliminate more than 6,000 teaching positions, the first...

Opinion: Let's Not Pull a 'Mubarak' in Yemen, Bahrain

Feb 18, 2011 - 5:00 AM |AOL News

As U.S.-friendly governments in Yemen and Bahrain struggle mightily to maintain law and order in the face of popular unrest now sweeping the Middle East -- a wave that's already toppled regimes in...

Opinion: Empty Words from Both Sides on the Debt

Feb 18, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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Last month the Congressional Budget Office reported that Social Security had begun running permanent budget deficits. Medicare is facing future budget shortfalls larger than the entire budgets of...

Opinion: Mubarak Out; Is Caliphate In?

Feb 18, 2011 - 4:57 AM |Special to AOL News

This is what we know about Egypt: Military is engaged. Parliament is dissolved. Constitution is suspended. Mubarak is out. And this is what we would love to know: Is caliphate in? For those who...

Opinion: Could Watson Save Your Life?

Feb 17, 2011 - 2:51 PM |Special to AOL News

Watson, the remarkable computer that beat some of the world's best players of "Jeopardy" this week, doesn't have to be just for games. Its ability to parse ungrammatical statements, interpret puns...

Opinion Roundup: Will 'So Be It' Comment Hurt Boehner?

Feb 17, 2011 - 10:45 AM |The Atlantic Wire

At a news conference on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner answered a question about federal job loss in the event that House Republicans enact billions of dollars in discretionary spending cuts. "Over...

Opinion: Lara Logan Assault Exposes Egypt's Dirty Little Secret

Feb 17, 2011 - 7:30 AM |Special to AOL News

Sherry Jones

The sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it...

Opinion: Media No Help When it Comes to Budget Cutting

Feb 17, 2011 - 6:00 AM |Special to AOL News

Now that budget battles have begun in earnest all around the country, those advocating spending cuts, Democrat and Republican, had better not expect any help in furthering their cause from the...

Opinion: 2 Ways to Win the Future

Feb 16, 2011 - 11:55 AM |Special to AOL News

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When the latest job numbers came out, they continued to deliver bad news. Just 36,000 jobs were added last month, far short of what analysts predicted. Fortunately, the president has finally -- and...